How to Complete the Denmark Marriage Application
Most international couples apply online to the Danish Agency of Family Law for approval to marry. Both partners provide their details, supporting documents and signed declarations. You can handle this yourselves or authorise a representative to apply for you.
This guide explains how to prepare and complete the application. The form adapts to your answers, so the exact screens and upload requests can differ. For an overview of the whole wedding journey, use our step-by-step guide.
Prepare before you open the form
• Have valid identification and the relevant lawful-stay evidence ready for each partner.
• Collect previous marriage documents, shared-address evidence and birth certificates for joint children where applicable.
• Finish required translations and authentication.
• Prepare separate email addresses and mobile numbers for the two partners.
• Choose your intended municipality and check its booking procedure.
• Keep an accepted payment method ready for the government fee.
The applicants' own birth certificates are not part of the standard application package. A separate foreign single-status certificate is not on the Agency's current standard preparation list. Our required documents guide explains the terminology and conditional documents.
Choose the correct login
Use MitID if you have it, as required by the Agency's instructions. Applicants without MitID are guided through an alternative login using email.
For the ordinary two-part application, Party 1 should use their own details. Do not log in as one partner and then enter the other person's information as Party 1. Keep each partner's email address and mobile number distinct.
Enter nationality and residence information
Give the current nationalities and any previous nationalities requested by the form. State whether each partner has a registered address in Denmark and the basis for their residence.
A residence permit does not change your nationality. Enter those facts separately. If your circumstances involve Danish or Nordic citizenship or permanent residence in Denmark, use our nationality guides to check the general route before proceeding.
Copy personal details carefully
Enter legal names exactly as they appear in your identification. Include all given names and check dates, places of birth, addresses, document numbers and expiry dates. Provide a CPR number or immigration identification number only where applicable.
If your name differs between documents, include official evidence of the change so the Agency can connect the records.
Explain the basis for lawful stay
Select the basis that applies to the trip: for example, a visa, a Schengen residence permit or visa-exempt travel. Upload the requested document and enter the correct validity dates.
Follow the live form's instructions for intended or completed travel, including EES calculator information and tickets or boarding passes where requested. For a short visit, read getting married on a tourist visa before deciding on travel dates.
Upload complete identification
For a passport, include colour photographs of all pages and covers, including blank pages. For an accepted EU national identity card, include both sides. Make sure the complete document is visible and the text is sharp.
Open each selected file and check that all details are clear. Avoid glare, cropped edges and compressed copies. Upload original still-image files in a format accepted by the form.
Give your previous marriage information
Answer questions about previous marriages or registered partnerships accurately. Supply the former partner's details, relevant dates and the final document showing divorce, death or annulment, where requested.
Include the original-language document, the required translation and authentication. A decision that does not establish finality may need clarification. If you are already in a registered partnership with each other, seek guidance on its treatment before taking legal steps to dissolve it.
Answer the marriage-condition questions
The form may ask about guardianship, family relationships and other conditions affecting the right to marry. Read each question carefully. Where a special circumstance applies, provide the requested explanation or consent rather than choosing an inaccurate answer to continue.
Describe your relationship
Depending on your circumstances, the questions may cover when you became a couple, how you met, your first meeting in person, shared addresses, children, communication and visits.
Review your relationship history together so the dates and explanations are accurate. If an exact date is uncertain, explain this using the options available in the form.
Select relationship evidence when requested
• Use dated photographs from different periods of the relationship.
• Include a representative selection of communication with visible dates.
• Add travel records that explain visits or trips together.
• Provide evidence of a shared address if you live together abroad.
• Include birth certificates for children you have together where required.
Present the material in chronological order with short explanations where useful. A focused file is easier to understand than a large archive of undated screenshots. Follow any period or quantity limits shown in the form.
Choose the municipality before signing and paying
For a town hall wedding, select the intended municipality in the application. The approval is normally sent to that marriage authority after the Agency approves the case.
This selection is not a reservation. Check wedding locations and town halls before applying and arrange the actual appointment after approval according to the municipality's procedure.
Complete any additional declarations
If the Section 11b declaration applies to your combination of nationality and residence status, read the family-reunification information and sign as instructed. Signing confirms that you have been informed about the rules; it does not grant residence rights or prevent you from applying for family reunification.
Each partner must also make the required truth declaration. Follow the Agency's signature instructions.
Submit both parts and register payment
Party 2 should open the invitation to the same application, check the information, complete their details and uploads, and sign their declaration. If the invitation has not arrived, check the spam folder.
Pay when the digital form requests payment during signing and submission. The 2026 government fee is approximately €282, charged as DKK 2,100 per application for the couple. Save the receipt and confirmation. Do not pay a second time simply because Party 2 needs to complete their part.
The Agency must receive both parts within 14 days after the application was started. Otherwise, it closes the case and you must apply and pay again.
Review these common mistakes
• Party 1's identity does not match the login used.
• A passport upload contains only the photo page.
• One partner has not submitted their part.
• A translation is included without the original document or relevant endorsements.
• Previous marriage documents do not show that the marriage legally ended.
• Travel dates fall outside the visa, residence permission or approval period.
• Choosing a municipality is mistaken for booking a ceremony.
After submission
Monitor both inboxes and respond to requests through the specified channel. Five working days is a guideline for complete eligible cases, not a guaranteed decision or wedding date. See our timeline guide for the effect of additional review and ceremony availability.
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